The Kingdom and the Power

A fourteen-story gray Gothic building on 43rd Street in Manhattan houses the
world's mightiest newspaper kingdom--whose power is such that those who run
it and work for it influence the course of human history. How a bankrupt
newspaper (circulation only 9,000 with $300,000 in accumulated debts and
losing money at the rate of $1,000 a day when Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896)
grew to such Olympian heights is chronicled in luminous and absorbing details
by former New York Times correspondent and bestselling author Gay Talese.

Gay Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues at the daily, revealing
the stories behind the personalities, rivalries, and scoops at the most
influential paper in the world. In gripping detail, Talese examines the
private and public lives of the famed Ochs family, along with their direct
descendants, the Sulzbergers, and their hobknobbing with presidents, kings,
ambassadors, and cabinet members, and the vicious struggles for power and
control at the paper.

Regarded as a classic piece of journalism, The Kingdom and the Power is as
gripping as a work of fiction and as relevant as today's headlines.